Sport, professionalism, and pain : ethnographies of injury and risk / P. David Howe
- Bib ID:
- 3068085
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Howe, P. David, 1966-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
- xii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415247292
- 0415247306
- 0415247292
- 0415247306
- Series:
- Ethics and sport.
- Summary:
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"Sport, Professionalism and Pain bridges a perceived space in the literature between medical anthropology, medical sociology and sport studies, examining issues such as: the relationship between sports medicine, the body and culture; the power struggle between sport administrators and participants; and the historical transformation of sports medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. The cultural nexus: sports medicine and the commercial body
- 1. Investigating sports medicine: medical anthropology in context
- 2. Amateur pastime to professional spectacle
- 3. Sporting bodies: mortal engines
- Pt. II. Pain, injury and the culture of risk
- 4. Pain and injury: signal and response
- 5. The importance of injury in the commercialised world of sport
- 6. Risk culture as a 'product'
- Pt. III. Theory into practice
- 7. Distinctive community: the Welsh rugby club
- 8. Elite distance runners
- 9. Bodily dysfunction: the Paralympics as an arena for risk
- App. I. Changes in the laws of rugby union: amendments to the laws of the game to be implemented in the Northern Hemisphere from 1 September 1996
- App. II. Changes in the laws of rugby union: amendments to the laws of the game effective as of 4 November 1996
- App. III. High-risk situations in rugby union
- App. IV. Pain relief
- App. V. Contents of the medical kitbag as used at Valley RFC.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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